Your Questions About Recycling

The Expert answers:

Vista – Recycle Bin – Restore it
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Don’t panic if you accidentally delete your Recycle Bin from your Windows Vista desktop. Putting your Trash Can back onto your desktop is an easy thing to do.
Step1
Right click with your mouse anywhere on the computer screen and choose PERSONALIZE from the menu that pops up.
Step2
Select CHANGE DESKTOP ITEMS from the left side pane.
Step3
Check the RECYCLE BIN box from the top right pane of the small pop up menu.

The Expert answers:

Your recycle bin could be full or set to delete files automatically. Either delete files from the bin and/or increase the amount of storage you can have in the bin. You can allocate more space by these steps

– right on the recycle bin and choose Properties
– move the slider increasing the storage to the desired percentage

Make sure the box is NOT checked for “Do not move files to the recycle bin”

The Expert answers:

The actual Recycle Bin, if you did delete it from Windows Explorer, should regenerate when you restart the machine. If you’ve just lost the icon from the desktop, here’s how to get that back:

With Windows XP:

There may be a more direct way, but here’s the only one I know of:

1.Download and install a freebie from Microsoft called TweakUI (see below for the URL). Install it on the desktop. It happens to be a nice tool, by the way.
2.Run it.
3.Click the Desktop entry on the left.
4.On the right, a series of check boxes for desktop icons should appear. The Recycle Bin should be one of them. Click it.
5.Click OK.

That should do it for XP.

For Vista, things are much simpler:

1.Right-click on the desktop and select Personalize.
2.Click the Change Desktop Icons entry in the left pane.
3.Check the Recycle Bin checkbox.
4.Click OK.

That should do it for Vista

Hope that helps.

The Expert answers:

The actual Recycle Bin, if you did delete it from Windows Explorer, should regenerate when you restart the machine. If you’ve just lost the icon from the desktop, here’s how to get that back:

With Windows XP:

There may be a more direct way, but here’s the only one I know of:

1.Download and install a freebie from Microsoft called TweakUI (see below for the URL). Install it on the desktop. It happens to be a nice tool, by the way.
2.Run it.
3.Click the Desktop entry on the left.
4.On the right, a series of check boxes for desktop icons should appear. The Recycle Bin should be one of them. Click it.
5.Click OK.

That should do it for XP.

For Vista, things are much simpler:

1.Right-click on the desktop and select Personalize.
2.Click the Change Desktop Icons entry in the left pane.
3.Check the Recycle Bin checkbox.
4.Click OK.

That should do it for Vista

Hope that helps.

The Expert answers:

Restoring the recycle bin in Vista
In Vista, it’s possible to remove the Recycle Bin from the desktop. I’ve also heard of some people who have the Recycle Bin disappear from their desktop for some unknown reason. If either of these has happened to you and you want to bring back the Recycle Bin to your desktop, here’s what you need to do.

– Right-click on the desktop and choose Personalize.

– Click on the Change desktop icons link in the upper left corner in the Tasks section.

– In the Desktop tab, there will be a Desktop Icons section with checkboxes and some possible icons to put on your desktop. One of these is labeled Recycle Bin, check the box next to that one then click the Apply button and you will now have the Recycle Bin back on your desktop.

The Expert answers:

It’s easy to blip off the recycling bin icon, though it is still accumulating files even when gone. It is your option to show it or not on your desktop. Here is easy:

Show or hide the Recycle Bin

The Recycle Bin usually appears on the desktop. If you prefer, you can hide it.

To show or hide the Recycle Bin on the desktop

1.Open Personalization by clicking the Start button , clicking Control Panel, clicking Appearance and Personalization, and then clicking Personalization.

2.In the left pane, click Change desktop icons, and then do one of the following:

•To remove the Recycle Bin from the desktop, clear the Recycle Bin check box.

•To display the Recycle Bin on the desktop, select the Recycle Bin check box.

3.Click OK.

That easy enough? By the way, it is almost impossible to screw up anything like this to a point where it cannot be fixed. There are five other ways in case this doesn’t work for you.

To the guy who said buy one from Apple, do you live on this planet? These folks come here for help, not smart assed comments.

The Expert answers:

Your Recycle Bin is set up to delete permanently without saving a temporary copy. Right-click the Recycle Bin and go to Properties. Make sure you are on the menu. Remove the check next to “Do not move files to the Recycle Bin. Remove files immediately when deleted.”

The Expert answers:

The recycle bin is always on your computer its actually a type of folder to hold temporary information of were “to be deleted” items are stored

you can open up explorer (open any folder like my computer under the start menu) and then in the address bar you can type Recycle bin

and just something to add even though you deleted something and empty the recycle bin the information is still on the hard drive until overwritten with some other information

The Expert answers:

HI ..

For empty recycle bin :: Right click on recycle bin then chose empty recycle bin ..
Use Shift+Delete Keys for deleting without using the recycle bin but be careful for what you delete

Best regards